12 our way out of the Museum, we stop- ped at the whale department. They thought the biggest whale ever caught was a 109-foot blue whale taken by Norwegians in the Antarctic five years ago. Its weight was estimated at 1 75,000 pounds. That's big. Approach A FRIEND of the Washington sales representative of the Gen- eral Electric Company's air-condition- ing department tells of that gentleman's heroic efforts to sell the system to the ] apanese embassy down there. After writing a long letter, he spent two days finding somebody who could transl te it into Japanese. He got the resultIng manuscript off to the embassy proudly, but received no answer. At length he made a personal call, and discovered that the letter had been referred to the engineer of the embassy, a gentleman in the basement by the name of O'Leary, only man in the place who didn't know Japanese. Spry W E know a man who has a run- ning uncle. The uncle runs home from work every night, and has for twenty years. He does not run direct- ly home, however, but makes a big swing around the southern part of the island-starting at Christopher Street, usually heading south as far as City Hall, then up Broadway to East Sev- enteenth Street and supper. This fleet homecomer is by name Henry Torrance, president of the Car- bondale Machinery Company. Since 1 927, Mr . Torrance has kept a log of his running, on a cost-estimate sheet. We have been permitted to glance through this log, and it is as impressive as it is cryptic. He runs, we added up, about a hundred miles a month, or between three and four miles every day. He wears no special togs, but just busts along in a business suit. When it rains he runs with umbrella and rub- , bers. When he is carrying a bundle, he runs with that. Years ago, when the symptoms of runnIng first became no- ticeable his office was in the Hudson , Terminal Building. He jogged home easIly. Later, his office was moved to Christopher Street, an event which his nephew regarded as a merciful dis- pensation, figuring that the daily grind would be materially shortened. Greatly to people's surprise, the uncle began arriving home via Chambers Street, .::",0;). t ',," ' 'i:J ; ,,: ";; l ,.,=l; I f ',, 11 j \:,4( : K:í ;,:, . ...,...' . ,','''. l 'Iv, ,..%.'f W::' ::;.:;( t i{\ l ": i f}> 1i " South Ferry, and other southern points. He tried the direct run once between Christopher Street and East Seven- teenth, but it did not satisfy his advanc- ing vigor and he found that he arrived home still wanting to run, which is a nUIsance. In the morning, on the way to work, he runs only a quarter of a mile, as that is the limit he can run and remain cool. If for any reason he is prevented from covering his usual three and a half miles in the evening, he broods about it .' .:.-- ""^' _.:t' t-: . ,)i )0 .....; , t E1 We, j:j ::...;:.f-: ..1 1 ti , ; Jz>>t''''i>;;. and goes out next day and steps off twice the distance, to make up. The log sheet records that on 2 N ov 29 he weighed 149 nude, that at an alum- ni celebration at Stevens Institute he covered 3 mi against a stpwatch in 21 min, and that in Chicago a year and a half ago he logged four miles a day and at the end of the run ran up twenty-two flights of stairs in the Stevens Hotel. He is now sixty-three. We were envious of anyone having a running uncle, until we recalled that .ß r'o#' , t ...' .:.. ':.:-=", J \ t ) .::::. .,;f ?' Íí j .: \ '1 . .: - jo.. ;x U: ,;>...:-;,(.."" ^t- ,\ ....:::: :;,,( : :; \l r :'.:.:-f: 14 ,^ "": ;;;; :,\. \ ,;. .::.;-. :..:.. ': [i. :, : ':,.?J ii\;;, M :;;., .....: . ) r' .: ..:: :' . .... ft . /- :4::., ,/)ji'l,irJMflJ:;''P .::::: t" ":".-; :::.;: :: : ;:. :\! i ::i .: _ .t_ _-'. \ly,l , 't , '.. : . ;í#., .y ... w+. ti '; " , :.:.:.:. . '. --': :::: .{ ..\:'.: ...... . . .:.:\? .::.:..:-:.... > ( 0 iltY::*ii;;%fkt ;* ((1 told thern it was foolish to put up another skyscraper now) but they shouted me down."